Callanan Rogers Quotes & Sayings

Imagination is the first step to escapism.... — Sultry Summers

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice. — Uma Thurman

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get. — Neil Gaiman

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The authorities should have taken a different approach. Imagine if it had been the far-right British National Party (BNP) growing on campus. Suppose that it was racism, instead of Islamism, spreading throughout the student population and the BNP had decided to stand in Student Union elections. If that had happened, and the BNP had taken over, the college would have acted immediately. They certainly would have seen the need for a solution, if only for their own reputation and the impact on admissions. They would have cited the college constitution about how hate speech was not allowed, how the BNP was an external political group attempting to hijack the college, and probably stopped them. But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious sensitivities, we were left alone. — Maajid Nawaz

All systems of morality are fine. The Gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few commonplace sentences put in bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. — Andrew Young

Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward — Lelouch Vi Britannia

Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly. — Neal A. Maxwell

Least effort is expended when our actions are motivated by love, because nature is held together by the energy of love. — Deepak Chopra

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time. — Andrew Levkoff

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King. — Bobby Seale